Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Whew --  What a busy spring we have had here. We finished turning all 3 compost bins - sifting the finished compost bin, and using the contents to top off garden beds where we could (some beds had things planted in them already). Then - created the start of our landscaping projects on this property with a 30' X 5 or 6' wide bed along the fence line inside the yard. I planted purple iris and a clematis rescued from other areas of the yard (where the original owners planted them) that they weren't doing well at. Then Hal (who unfortunately recently passed) offered us some day lilies and blue hyacynth flowers from a bed he wanted to take out. So we took some divisions of those... then another neighbor friend allowed us to take a few old fashioned very early blooming bulbs from the side of her house... so those are all in the new landscape bed. I also planted some nasturtium, sunflower, peony, bearded tongue penstimum, (spelling?), and some daisy... some 4oclock etc. So...